Angella Kim is a professor Bellydancer, artistic performer, choreography and actress. She is the founder of Angella Format Oriental Dance (AFOD) academy in China and South Korea.

Angella has gained enormous awards all around the world since 2005. Here is a list of some of her achievement within her 15 years of research, teaching and developing the bellydance all around the world.

2005 1st founder of Bellydance Teacher Program in China;

2008 - Present Master teacher in China, South Korea, Japan, Malaysia, Vietnam, Singapore, Taiwan, Russia, Egypt, Greece, Italy, Spain, Hungry, USA, Australia, etc.

2008 - Present 200 Professional Oriental teacher, teaching workshop in 50+ cities, 10 countries per year

2009 - 2013 BDE Troupe dancer

2010 - Present Host 10+ International AFOD Bellydance festivals

International Awards:

2007 2nd Place at Nagwa Fouad Cup, Egypt

2009, 2010 1st place at Jillina Cup, USA

2015 1st place at Oriental Passion Dina Cup, Egypt

2016 gained "Best Oriental dance instructor" award in South Korea

2018 gained "Best Oriental dance choreographer" award in South Korea and Vietnam

2019 gained "Best World leading Oriental dancer" award in Egypt

World-class guest teacher at:

Ahlan Wa Shlan festival in Cairo, Egypt

Cairo Khan Oriental dance festival in Cairo, Egypt

El sa'awah festival in Seoul, South Korea

Raks Festival in Taiwan

Ahlan International Bellydance festival in Hanoi, Vietnam

Angella Kim is the supervisor and main master teacher at AFOD&DSOD 100 - Hour Professional Oriental dance Teacher Program Ireland and 20 - Hour Professional Oriental dance Teacher Program.

Dawn is the director & main instructor at AFOD&DSOD 100-Hour Professional Oriental Dance Teacher program Ireland and 20-Hour Professional Development Program.

Bio of Dawn Wang can be found on DSOD Homepage.

Ahmed Refaat is a professional Egyptian folkloric dancer, instructor and choreographer with 25 years of experience. He started his career at the age of 9 in the El Gezira Youth Center's Folkloric Dance Troupe where he worked for many years under master teacher Mokhtar Mustafa. At the age of 17 Ahmed became an instructor at the center, being responsible for training young and upcoming dancers. During the time at this position Ahmed worked in shows and festivals all over Egypt as well as participating in several major festivals in Europe and the Middle East, including but not limited to Germany, Bulgaria, Russia and Oman.

In 2007 Ahmed was featured in Reda Troupe's anniversary show for celebration of its founder Mahmoud Reda, which has been performed in Alexandria Egypt, Rome and Madrid. In 2007 Ahmed is invited as an honoured guest teacher in the Nile Group Festival in Cairo (being held 4 times a year), and has held this position ever since.

In 2008 Ahmed taught a full course at the EKC Dance School in Stockholm, Sweden with Mr. Mohamed Abo Shebika. Ahmed's teaching at the international scale spreaded vastly since then on. Ahmed has been featured in many international festivals for Oriental dance, including Poland, Spain, France, China, Russia, Ukraine, Croatia, Hungary, Sweden, Italy, Singapore and Japan.

Now as a sought-after teacher and performer, Ahmed gives private lessons in Cairo as well as travelling both in Egypt and around the world to share his knowledge in Egyptian Folkloric dance.

Ahmed is a honored master teacher at AFOD&DSOD 100 - Hour Professional Oriental dance Teacher Program Ireland and 20 - Hour Professional Oriental dance Teacher Program.

Samira Delatier is the founder of DSOD Chile and is a honoured guest instructor at AFOD&DSOD 100-Hour Professional Oriental Dance Teacher program Ireland and 20-Hour Professional Development Program.

Bio of Samira Delatier can be found on DSOD Homepage.

Abu Kadar is a Darbuka player located in Kraków, Poland. He is a honored musician at DSOD and the music theory teacher at AFOD&DSOD 100 - Hour Teacher Program and 20 - Hour Professional Development Program.

Abu Kadar's music career started from 2007. Since then on he has been worked closely as a Darbuka player for shows, DVD recordings and teaching for professional bellydancers both in Poland and on the international stage including Randa Kamel, Jasirah and Suraiya Ibrahim.

Abu had his own folk band playing his compositions and his band received many achievement. In 2016 his band won the Grand Prix in festival Mikolajki Folkowe, which is the most famous folk music festival and competition in Poland. In 2017, Abu's band got into the final 5 (out of 53 bands) at the most prestigious folk festival in Poland Nowa Tradycja (New Tradition) organised by Polish National Radio 2 and his composition was played live in the Radio.

By education Abu is also a psychologist, so Abu tries to teach in ways which help the learners to engage as many senses and levels of processing as possible. Abu Kadar's teaching style is logical, precise, sensible and fun! Abu Kadar is very patient in his teaching and very encouraging and adaptive to any dancing characters. Playing and sharing music through performing with and teaching towards dancers not only brings joy but enriches inspirations for Abu Kadar's in his musical and artistic creation.

Abu Kadar is also a violinist specializing in polish traditional music.

Mo Sia is a Tunisian violinist specializing in specialised mainly in Arabic Music including Tarab, Baladi, Saidi, Shabby, Folklore and Pop song. He also plays fusion including the genre of Blues and Jazz.

Mo Sia's musical education started when he was at age of 15 and this path is being followed since then on. Mo started to play with authentic Arabic musical bands since 2005 in Tunisia, France and Ireland.

Mo Sia is an honored guest musical theory teacher at DSOD and he teaches at AFOD&DSOD 100 - Hour Teacher Program and 20 - Hour Professional Development Program. Mo Sia's teaching at DSOD covers the lessons themed on Arabic musical theory.